TNO Vector Tom Barbereau

Tom Barbereau

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Scientist Specialist Digital Society
TNO Vector Tom Barbereau

My name is Tom Barbereau and I am a Scientist Specialist at the research group on Digital Governance and Regulation. I bring passion for disruptive technologies' impact on organisations, modes of governance, and society at large.


Trained in the social sciences (MSc) and information systems management (PhD), I contribute expertise on the governance of digital technologies – with a focus on privacy-enhancing technologies - from an interdisciplinary perspective. My work primarily focuses on digital technologies, their design and fit with organisations' goals, as well as their broader impacts on society. At large, I work on questions of digital sovereignty and trust.

I contribute to academic discourse on governance, including in privacy technologies (n.b. federated learning, blockchain), digital identity, and cryptocurrencies. My work is published in leading academic journals in sociology, administrative science, and law amongst others.

TOP PUBLICATIONS

Barbereau, T., Fernandez, J. D., & Menci, S. P. (2025). The governance of federated learning: a decision framework for organisational archetypes. Data & Policy, 7 (53).

Barbereau, T., Smethurst, R., Papageorgiou, O., Sedlmeir, J., & Fridgen, G. (2023). Decentralised Finance’s timocratic governance: The distribution and exercise of tokenised voting rights. Technology in Society, 73.

Barbereau, T., & Bodó, B. (2023). Beyond financial regulation of crypto-asset wallet software: In search of secondary liability. Computer Law & Security Review, 49, 105829.

Weigl, L., Barbereau, T., & Fridgen, G. (2023). The construction of self-sovereign identity: Extending the interpretive flexibility of technology towards institutions. Government Information Quarterly, 40(4).